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| author | Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@redhat.com> | 2008-08-14 13:38:50 +0930 |
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| committer | Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@redhat.com> | 2008-08-14 13:44:11 +0930 |
| commit | e8534d47c8524ac081c2e3e6ebaabe4c6b274a18 (patch) | |
| tree | 7393fa841ab3b78c165e6032f3644ed577d350eb /man | |
| parent | 555f5a7cbf3c980c436c205e9b23a78f3e19bdfe (diff) | |
Don't grab devices unless specified through the config options.
Grabbing event devices stops in-kernel event forwarding, most notably rfkill
and the "Macintosh mouse button emulation" device. Let's not do that.
Option "GrabDevice" forces grabbing the device.
Diffstat (limited to 'man')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/evdev.man | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/evdev.man b/man/evdev.man index 3b0f3b1..ee126f1 100644 --- a/man/evdev.man +++ b/man/evdev.man @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ evdev \- Generic Linux input driver .BI " Option \*qPath\*q \*q" path \*q .BI " Option \*qEmulate3Buttons\*q \*q" True \*q .BI " Option \*qEmulate3Timeout\*q \*q" 50 \*q +.BI " Option \*qGrabDevice\*q \*q" False \*q \ \ ... .B EndSection .fi @@ -120,6 +121,13 @@ emulation mode. Button number is mapped to the negative Y axis motion and button number .I N2 is mapped to the positive Y axis motion. Default: "4 5" +.TP 7 +.BI "Option \*qGrabDevice\*q \*q" boolean \*q +Force a grab on the event device. Doing so will ensure that no other driver +can initialise the same device and it will also stop the device from sending +events to /dev/kbd or /dev/input/mice. Events from this device will not be +sent to virtual devices (e.g. rfkill or the Macintosh mouse button emulation). +Default disabled. .SH AUTHORS Kristian Høgsberg. .SH "SEE ALSO" |